Professor Mark Bray

Career Summary

Biography

Mark has held the Foundation Chair in Employment Studies at the University of Newcastle since 1997. Before then, he held positions at the Universities of NSW, Wollongong and Sydney. He has taught Australian and comparative industrial relations, human resource management and research methods over many years. He has since 2005 been author (with Peter Waring, Rae Cooper and Johanna Macneil) of Australia's leading university textbook in the field: Employment Relations: Theory and Practice (McGraw-Hill, Sydney, 2014, 3rd Edition). He has performed in a range of leadership roles at the University of Newcastle, from Head of the Management and Business Schools to various Assistant Deanships.

His current research interests include the role of tribunals in promoting workplace cooperation and performance; and the structures and processes of labour regulation, including labour law, collective bargaining and awards. Over his career, he has also researched topics like: industrial relations and human resource management in selected industries (including health, road transport, airlines, electricity generation, aluminium smelting, hospitality); HRM in multinational corporations; national and industry differences in labour regulation; the complexity of labour regulation; and industrial relations public policy.

Postrado L, Macneil JL, Bray MD, ''We came from B shift, and B shift was the enemy': Rules, norms and conflict at an aluminium smelter', Labour, Capital and Change: Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Newcastle, NSW (2009) [E1]

Whittard JA, Bray MD, Larkin RM, Lewer J, 'The Boeing dispute at Williamtown: What right to bargain collectively?', Proceedings of the 21st Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, University of Auckland, N.Z. (2007) [E1]

Bray MD, White NL, 'A System Under Pressure Industrial Relations in New South Wales Public Hospitals', Celebrating Excellence: The Proceedings of the 16th AIRAANZ Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand (2002) [E2]

Research Supervision

Current Supervision

Explaining the Emergence and Effectiveness of Industry-Level Labour Regulation in the Chengdu Hotel IndustryBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawPrincipal Supervisor

2011

Human Resource Practices and Voluntary Labour Turnover in the Readymade Garment Industry in BangladeshBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawPrincipal Supervisor

2011

Employment Relations Reform in the Banking Sector in Indonesia: the Implementation of Dispute Resolution Procedures - a Case StudyBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawPrincipal Supervisor

Past Supervision

Year

Research Title / Program / Supervisor Type

2014

The Control Mechanisms and HR Policies and Practices of MNCs from Emerging Economies in their Subsidiaries in Developed Countries: Case Studies of Indian IT Companies in AustraliaBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawPrincipal Supervisor

2013

The Changing Structure of Labour Regulation: The Australian Domestic Airline Industry, 1990-2006Business Management, Faculty of Business and LawPrincipal Supervisor

2012

Understanding Adoption, Implementation and Outcomes of New Public Management Reforms in Developing Countries: a Case Study of BotswanaBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawPrincipal Supervisor

2011

The Relationship between High Performance Human Resource Practices and Organisational Performance in the Jordanian Industrial and Financial SectorsBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawPrincipal Supervisor

2010

Employment Relations in the Indonesian Hospitality Industry: Three Case StudiesBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawCo-Supervisor

2009

Modelling the Relationships Between Equity, Pay Satisfaction, Affective Commitment and Intention to Turnover: An Empirical Test in BotswanaBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawPrincipal Supervisor

2006

Trade Union Strategy: The Problem of Structure and AgencyBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawSole Supervisor

2006

'Not Charted on Ordinary MAPS' The Newcastle Steelworks Closure and the Closedown EffectBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawSole Supervisor

2005

Equity and Efficiency: The Case of Australian Workplace AgreementsBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawPrincipal Supervisor

2002

The Impact of Australian Multinational Companies Upon Industrial Relations in Malaysia: A Workplace ViewBusiness Management, Faculty of Business and LawSole Supervisor